Eric Aho

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ERIC AHO



08 FEBRUARY — 25 MARCH 2024

ERIC AHO S EL EC T ED PA I N T I N GS: 2010 -2023

MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY


S EL EC T ED PA I N T I N GS: 2010 -2023 Selected Paintings: 2010-2023 presents a specific palette

intimate; each painting is an attempt to wrangle time

within the Eric Aho's celebrated oeuvre—the beloved pale

and reality. In his artist’s statement, Eric Aho asks us to

of winter. With color and form that bridges the way we

take a moment: “Standing before a canvas, like standing

experience nature in totality, Aho’s canvases at every

in the woods, is much the same. It takes a moment for

scale, occupy a zone of perception between sober realism

the eye to adjust to less light in the forest as much as

and ecstatic abstraction. While Aho works from his own

it does to quiet the mind. Is this what Whitman meant

impressions and memories of the landscape, the artist

by

“unminding”—to

just

look

without

disturbance?”

also draws upon major pillars of art history—including De Kooning, Goya, Homer, and Constable—to define his

Born in Melrose, Massachusetts, Aho studied at the

compositions.

Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London, England and then received his BFA in printmaking at the

As writer Tim Weed describes, in Aho’s work, “A vibrating

Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA. Aho has

current of electricity dwells just behind everything in

exhibited throughout the United States and internationally.

nature and the encounter with the painting, like [an]

Recent solo exhibitions were held at New Britain Museum

encounter with [a] trout, links you to that current, if only

of American Art, New Britain, CT, the Hood Museum of

for a fleeting instant. A connection is made between you

Art, Hanover, NH, the Federal Reserve Board, Washington,

and something larger. Something important and true.”

DC, and the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts

Within

each

painting,

Aho

brilliantly

captures

the

Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Museum of

dichotomy of being in the wilderness, feeling connected

Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; the

to the environment and at the same moment disrupting

Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH; and The Metropolitan

the natural setting. Each piece captures immensities made

Museum of Art, New York, NY, among others.

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BASE, 2010 Oil on linen 62 x 80 inches

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QUARTERMASTER, 2016 Oil on wood panel 50 x 160 inches

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STAGE THREE, 2017 Oil on linen 80 x 62 inches

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POET LAUREATE, 2018 Oil on linen 62 x 80 inches

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THRUSH, 2018 Oil on linen 50 x 60 inches

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WINTER FORREST, 2018 Oil on linen 20 x 16 inches

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ØKS, 2020 Oil on linen 36 x 30 inches

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FROZEN WATERFALL, 2022 Oil on linen 14 x 11 inches

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NORGE, 2023 Oil on linen 70 x 78 inches

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FROZEN FALLS IN THE MOUNTAINS, 2023 Oil on linen 52 x 48 inches

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METSÄ, 2023 Oil on linen 52 x 48 inches

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SWISS MOUNTAIN AFTER BIERSTADT, 2023 Oil on linen 30 x 36 inches

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ERIC AHO

Eric Aho: Headwater, Burlington City Arts Gallery, VT 2021 Eric Aho: Interior, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY 2020 Eric Aho: Source, DC Moore Gallery, New York 2019 Eric Aho: Waterline, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY 2018 Eric Aho: Guide, DC Moore Gallery, New York 2017 Eric Aho: Meeting Place, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY 2016 Eric Aho: Ice Houses, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX Eric Aho: Toward a Bright Opening, Catamount Art Center, St. Johnsbury, VT Eric Aho: An Unfinished Point in a Vast Surrounding, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT Eric Aho: Ice Cuts, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH 2015 Eric Aho: Wilderness Studio, DC Moore Gallery, New York 2013 Eric Aho: Translation, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Eric Aho: In the Landscape, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC.

American, born in 1966 in Melrose, MA Lives and works in Saxtons River, VT

EDUCATION 1991-1992 1988-1989 1986-1987 1984-1988

Post graduate certificate, Institute of Art and Design, Lahti, Finland Graduate study, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Diploma, Advanced Studies in Printmaking, Central School of Art and Design, London BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023 Nature Remains, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY 2022 Eric Aho: Threshold, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

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2012 Transcending Nature: Paintings by Eric Aho, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH 2011 Eric Aho: Covert, DC Moore Gallery, New York 2010 Eric Aho: Occurrence, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 2009 Eric Aho: Red Winter, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Eric Aho: Ice Box, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT 2008 Wilderness, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA Outermost, Brickwalk Fine Art, West Hartford, CT 2007 Quarry, Reeves Contemporary, New York 2006 Copper Field Suite: New Monotypes, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT Geography IV, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA Paintings, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, NC

La Banda, Tappetto Volante, Brooklyn, NY Come a Little Closer, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY The Farnsworth at 75: New Voices from Maine in American Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME 2022 And So Did Pleasure Take the Hand of Sorrow and They Wandered Through the Land of Joy: Eight Artists and Marsden Hartley Drawings, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME Twenty Year Exhibition, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY Parks and Recreation, Bennington Museum, VT The Friends at 50: Selections from the Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase College, NY The Printer’s Proof: Artist and Printer Collaborations, Albuquerque Museum, NM 2021 e Pluribus: Out of Many, National Academy of Design, NY (digital exhibition) Landscape and Memory, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY Mobilizing the Landscape, Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State College, NH

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Recent Acquisitions, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY Library, Curated by Glenn Goldberg, Tappetto Volante, Brooklyn, NY

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Angle of Repose, Poker Flats, Williamstown, MA Recent Acquisitions 2016-2021, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT Connecting the World, Shoji Art Museum, Shimoitchoda, Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan 2020 28 Years Rambling Through the Landscape, Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland 2019 New at the Neuberger, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY 2018 Long Eye, University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham, NH Nocturne, Abigail Ogilvy, Boston, MA 2017 Space as Narrative, Concord Art Association, MA Summer Mysterious, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Refuge, The Kent Museum, Calais, VT The Secret Life of Plants, Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, NY Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views, Heritiage Museums and Gardens, Sandwich, MA Aperture, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

2016 Boundless Nature: Real and Imagined, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 32°: The Art of Winter, Shelburne Museum, VT 2015 Mystic North: Burchfield, Sibelius and Nature, Burchfield Penney Art Center, SUNY Buffalo State, NY The Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface, National Academy Museum, New York, NY Director’s Favorites: 1999-2015, The New Britain Museum of American Art, CT Cool Day: Pat de Groot and Friends, Acme Fine Art, Boston, MA 2014 Recently Acquired, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA 2013 Landscape Expressed: Eric Aho, Jason Berger, Francesco Carbone, Bernard Chaet, Jon Imber, Jack Kramer, George Nick, Joan Snyder, John Walker, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA Woods Lovely Dark and Deep, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2012 The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, New York, NY Galvanized Truth: A Tribute to George Nick, The Art Complex Museum,

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Duxbury, MA 2011 Land Use/Misuse: The Celebration and Exploitation of the American Landscape, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Outermost, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney, Contemporary Acquisitions 2009, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2010 Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting, Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Japan Behind the Green Door, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA Raw State, 222 Shelby Street Gallery, Santa Fe Beyond Sublime: Changing Nature, Walton Art Center, Fayetteville, AR 2009 Northern (L)attitudes: Norwegian and American Contemporary Art, The American Scandinavian Foundation, New York, NY Trees, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Evening Light, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Selections from the Permanent Collection, Ogunquit Museum of Art, ME DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA 2007 DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2006 The 181st Annual: Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY HotPics 06, Katonah Museum of Art, NY DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2005 Northern Passages, DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI 2003 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, ME Eire Land, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 2002 Recent Acquisitions, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA 2000 175th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY 1999 Ultima Thule, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland 1998 173rd Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY 1997 William Lumpkins and Eric Aho, Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

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1996 Weir Farm Visiting Artists, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT New England /New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, MA 1995 Small Works, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1994 Regional Selections 1994, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1992 Young Talent Show, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT 1991 Boston Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 1989 From Havana, Santa Clara Museum of Art, Cuba 1988 Young Printmakers from the US, University of Cape Town, South Africa 1987 International Committee of Optimists, Mail Art Exhibition, Tampere Art Museum, Finland

1995 1991

GRANTS AND AWARDS 2023 Artist of the Year. Finlandia Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 2016 The Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, Montpelier, VT 2009 Elected National Academician, National Academy, New York, NY 2003 American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, NY 2000 The John Koch Award for Painting, National Academy, New York, NY 1998 Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy, New

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES 2018 2016 1996-2004

Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland Artist in Residence, Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton, CT Artist Fellowship, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland Fulbright Fellowship in Visual Art, Institute of International Education, New York, NY

Kate and George Kendall Fellow, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH DNA Summer Residency, Provincetown, MA Returning Fellowship, Ballinglen Arts

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York, NY 1997 Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, Finlandia Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 1994 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc., New York, NY Vermont Community Foundation, Middlebury, VT 1993 American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, NY 1991 Fulbright Fellowship in Visual Art to Finland

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ministry of Culture, Havana, Cuba Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Academy Museum, New York National College of Art, Oslo, Norway Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York New Britain Museum of American Art, CT The New York Public Library Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME Oulu City Art Museum, Finland The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, MA Setesdal Museum, Rysstad, Norway Shoji Art Museum, Numazu, Japan Springfield Art Museum, MO Tufts University, Medford, MA University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Vermont State Art Collection, Montpelier, VT Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland Boston Public Library Buffalo AKG Art Museum, NY Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH Denver Art Museum, CO Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, MA

VISITING ARTIST/CRITIC 2022 Visiting Speaker. William Patterson University,

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Wayne, NJ 2020 Visiting Speaker. Keene State College, NH 2017 Visiting Artist/Critic. Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT 2016 Visiting Artist. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 2015 Panelist. Scholar’s Conference Van Gogh and Nature. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA 2009 Visiting Artist/Speaker. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Outside Evaluator. Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT Visiting Artist. Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 2008 Visiting Artist/Speaker. Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT 2006 Juror. Massachusetts Cultural Council Painting Grants Competition. 2003 Visiting Artist. Finlandia University, Hancock, MI 2002 Visiting Artist. St. Paul’s School. Concord, NH 2001 Visiting Critic. Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT 2000 Visiting Critic. Harvard Graduate School of Design. Cambridge, MA Visiting Critic. Massachusetts College of Art. Boston, MA Visiting Printmaker. Vermont Studio Center. Johnson,

Vermont 1997 Visiting Artist/Speaker. Colgate University. Hamilton, NY 1996 Visiting Critic. Marlboro College. Marlboro, VT 1995 Visiting Critic. Massachusetts College of Art. Boston, MA 1994 Visiting Critic. Massachusetts College of Art. Boston, MA Visiting Artist/Speaker. University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland Visiting Artist/Speaker. Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1990 Visiting Artist. Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, Cuba Visiting Artist. National College of Art. Oslo, Norway

LECTURES / TALKS 2022 “What Painting Can Do Now, Eric Aho in Conversation with Jared Quinton.” DC Moore Gallery, New York via Zoom. 2021 “Eric Aho in Conversation with Lois Dodd.” Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT via Zoom.

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2020 “On Intimacy and Distance, Eric Aho in Conversation with Todd Bradway.” DC Moore Gallery, New York via Zoom. 2019 “Shock of Space: Eric Aho on his Work.” New York Studio School Lecture Series, New York Studio School, NY 2016 “An Evening with Eric Aho.” New Britain Museum of American Art, CT “Gallery Talk: An Unfinished Point in a Vast Surrounding.” New Britain Museum of American Art, CT “I Did Not Come Here to Paint.” Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 2014 “Landscape in Contemporary Art: Eric Aho, Marcella Durand, Mark Innerst, Claire Sherman, Darren Watterston. Art and Literature Series Event, New York Public Library, NY 2012 “ARTtalk with Eric Aho.” Transcending Nature: Paintings by Eric Aho. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH 2013 “The Pressure of Reality.” Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 2010 “The Real and the Invented.” Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT 2009 “Mediating the Actual.” Denver Art Museum,

Denver, CO “Curator’s Talk – HOME.” Westport Art Center, Westport, CT “Panel Discussion.” Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME 2005 “An Evening with Eric Aho.” UBS Art of Leadership Series. National Academy Museum. New York, NY “Some Thoughts on Painting.” Keene Art Association. Keene, NH 2001 “Painting and Study.” Western Connecticut State University. Danbury, CT 1999 “Some Thoughts on Painting.” T.W. Wood Gallery. Vermont College. Montpelier, VT 1997 “Surviving Sight. Art and Atrocity.” Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1996 “Painterly Precedents: The Weir Farm Landscape.” Weir Farm, Wilton, CT 1995 “From Area to Area.” Oulu Art Museum. Oulu, Finland “Experiencing the Landscape.” University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 1994 “The Raw Landscape: Lapland After the War.” Colgate University, Hamilton, NY “Gallery Talk.” Regional Selections 1994. Hood

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Museum of Art. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1993 “Painting and Travelling.” University of Industrial Arts. Helsinki, Finland “Progression of the Landscape in Lapland.” Finlandia Foundation, NY; AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH 1992 “Painting and Identity.” Kuusamo Conference on Art and Nature. Kuusamo, Finland

Jan/Feb 2023, p. 9, illus. Platt, Lucky, “Eight Maine Artists Curate Works Inspired by Marsden Hartley,” Maine Home + Design, January, 2023, illus. Arango, Jorge S. “Bates Pairs Hartley Drawings with Works by Contemporary Artists,” Portland Press Herald, January 22, 2023. Shea, Andrew, L. Eric Aho: At the Edge of a Lake. Exh. cat. DC Moore Gallery: New York, 2022 Santmire, Paul H. EcoActivist Testament: Explorations of Faith and Nature for Fellow Travelers. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022, cover image, illus. Aho, Eric (Apr. 2022) in “The Precarious Joy of Katherine Bradford’s Circus,” New Observations Magazine, Issue 141, pp.32–33, ill. “Eric Aho.” Brainard Carey: The Lives of the Artists. Yale University Radio, April 9, 2022 Quinton, Jared, “Eric Aho,” Artforum, online, April 2022. Lilly, Amy, “In Eric Aho’s Paintings at the BCA Center, Landscape is Exuberantly Abstract,” Seven Days, March 9, 2022 Routhier, Ray. “Artist to Recreate Scene from Marsden

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY “Artist Sets Out to Re-create Scene from Marsden Hartley Painting,” Portland Press Herald, February 25, 2023. Russell, Eric. At 75, Farnsworth Reimagines Collection to Better Reflect Maine’s Place in American Art, Portland Press Herald, March 5, 2023. Arango, Jorge S. “Farnsworth Shows Maine Art in New Light, “Pairs Hartley Drawings with Works by Contemporary Artists,” Portland Press Herald, March 5, 2023. Michaelman, Elizabeth, “Hartley’s Century of Modernist Influence at Bates,” Artscope,

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Hartley Painting on Maine Lake,” Portland Press Herald, January 30, 2022 “Aho, Eric. In the Studio,” Image, Issue no. 110, 2021. Kozik, K.K. “Connection to Place: The Work of Eric Aho and Brece Honeycutt.” COCOA, The Journal of Cornwall Contemporary Art, (Summer 2021): ill. Volpe, Christopher. “Studio Visit: Eric Aho,” Art New England, March / April 2021. Shea, Andrew. “The Critic’s Notebook,” The New Criterion, (DC Moore Gallery exhibition review), October 27, 2020, ill. Dorfman, John. “Eric Aho: Back to the Land.” Art and Antiques, (Oct. 2020): 33–39, ill. Aho, Eric. Source. Exh. cat. DC Moore Gallery: New York, 2020 Boulanger, Susan. “Singular and Serial: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint,” Art New England, (Book Review), September/October 2019 Furutani, Lea (Producer). “Heading North.” Weekends with Yankee. Yankee TV. American Public Television. July 2020. Television. Hitt, Elinor. “Staff Picks,” The Paris Review, April 10, 2020 Aho, Eric (February 2020) in Ebony, David. “A Tribute to

Emily Mason,” The Brooklyn Rail Kernan, Catherine; Serial and Singular: Contemporary Monotype and Monoprint, ed. E. Ashley Rooney. Schiffer Publishing: Atglen, PA, 2019, ill. Shea, Andrew. “The Critic’s Notebook,” The New Criterion, (DC Moore Gallery exhibition review), November 5, 2018, ill. Blackburne, Katherine, “Eric Aho’s ‘Guide’ is a Show of Embodied Experience,” Fine Art Globe (Internet), November 12, 2018 Heller, Peter. Thoughts While Listening to Eric Aho’s Latest Paintings—Addressed to the Paintings Themselves. Exh. cat. DC Moore Gallery: New York, 2018 Laine, Kristen. “The Artist in Winter.” Yankee Magazine, (January 2018): 119-132, ill. Wirtz, Philipp. “Auf den Spuren des Vater im Krieg,” Rhein-Zeitung (Germany), April 24, 2017 Spiegelman, Willard. “In Connecticut, Discovering American Art’s First Home,” The Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2016 Dunne, Susan. “Eric Aho’s Wartime-Inspired Abstract

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Landscapes At NBMAA,” Hartford Courant, June 27, 2016 Butler, Sharon. “Eric Aho Shadows His Father at the New Britain,” Two Coats of Paint (Internet), July 26, 2016 O’Shaughnessy, Tracey. “The Private Power of Landscapes,” Waterbury Republican American, June 5, 2016 Smee, Sebastian. “New England artist Aho breaks ice with new body of work,” The Boston Globe, January 16, 2016. Williams, Mary. “Looking Into The Ice, Saxtons River Artist Meditates on Winter,” Vermont Public Radio, January 14, 2016. Volpe, Christopher. “Eric Aho, Ice Cuts,” Art New England, January/February 2016. “Hood Museum carves into Eric Aho’s intense meditation on winter,” Manchester Union Leader, January 6, 2016. “Exhibition of new work on view at DC Moore Gallery,” Artdaily.org, online. October 28, 2015. Kernan, Nathan. Enclosures, Fields, Territories and Portraits. Exh. cat. DC Moore Gallery: New York, 2015

Chicago Life Magazine, Spring 2015 Aho, Eric, Ellen Altfest, Morgan Falconer, Ridley Howard, David Humphrey, Dan Keane, Randy Kennedy, Linda Nochlin, Justin Paton, Barry Schwabsky, Sylvia Sleigh, Anthony Spira and Robert Storr. Ellen Altfest: Painting Close-up, Occasional Papers, London, UK, ed. Anthony Spira, 2015 Schlegel, Amy Ingrid. MANNA: Masterworks from the Tufts University Permanent Art Collection, ed. Amy Ingrid Schlegel. Tufts University Art Gallery: Medford, MA, 2014: 112, ill. Smee, Sebastian. “Concord Explores ‘Sight Specific.’” The Boston Globe, July 3, 2014 Samet, Jennifer. “Beer with a Painter: Eric Aho.” Hyperallergic (Internet), September 14, 2014 Kuspit, Donald. “Eric Aho: Translation” (DC Moore Gallery exhibition review). Artforum, (January 2014): 212, ill. Tuite, Diana. Painting Close In. Exh. cat. DC Moore Gallery: New York, 2013 Della Monica, Lauren P. Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views, Schiffer: Atglen,

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PA, 2013: ill. Distler, Arlene. “Not Tyrannized by the Seen.” Art New England Online, (October 24, 2012): ill. Smee, Sebastian. “Transcending Nature: Paintings by Eric Aho.” Editor’s Pick, The Boston Globe, Aug. 15, 2013 Spahr, P. Andrew, Bruce McColl, and Chard deNiord. Transcending Nature: Paintings by Eric Aho. Exh. cat. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, 2012. ill. Beem, Edgar Allen. “Eric Aho Breaks Down the New England Landscape.” (Currier Museum exhibition review). Yankee Magazine Online, (July 18, 2012): ill. McQuaid, Cate. “Contemporary Painters bring Dynamism, Drama to N.E Landscapes.” (Currier Museum exhibition review). Boston Globe, July 17, 2012. ill. Kuechenmeister, Mary and Eric Aho. “Inspired Lives: Eric Aho.” New Hampshire Public Radio. July 11, 2012 Chestney, Linda. “Transcending Nature: Paintings by Eric Aho.” (exhibition review). Artscope, (July/August, 2012): 52, ill.

Volpe, Christopher. “Eric Aho at Currier Museum of Art.” (exhibition review). Art New England 33, Issue 4 (July/August 2012): 70, ill. Huebner, Jeff. “Trees, Rocks and Water: The Finnishness in Finnish-American Art.” Exh. cat. Finlandia University Gallery: Hancock, MI: Wei, Lilly. “Eric Aho: Covert” (DC Moore Gallery exhibition review). ARTnews 10, Issue 11 (Dec.2001): 127, ill. Kuspit, Donald. Sublime Fullness, Perennial Light: Eric Aho’s Paintings. Exh. cat. DC Moore Gallery: New York, 2011 Inokuchi, Satoko. Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting. Exh. cat. Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts: Nagoya, Japan: 2010 Peterson, Kristen. “Bellagio’s ‘A Sense of Place’ Brings Together Classic and Contemporary.” Las Vegas Weekly, Apr. 13, 2011 Packard, Andrea. Beyond Sublime: Transformative Views of Nature. Exh. cat. Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR, 2010 Aho, Eric. Interview with Ellen Altfest. “Meeting of Minds.” Modern Painters 22, Issue 3 (Apr. 2010): 40–41, ill.

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Dorrill, Lisa. “Fire and Ice: The Sublime Landscapes of Eric Aho.” The Gettysburg Review (Spring 2010): 78–88, ill. Guyon, Anne Lawrence. “Eric Aho: Red Winter” (DC Moore Gallery exhibition review). Art in America 97, Issue 11 (Dec. 2009): 138 Costello, Bonnie. Red Winter: Eric Aho’s Actuality. Exh. cat. DC Moore Gallery: New York, 2009 Smee, Sebastian. “Maine Event.” Boston Globe, May 8, 2009 Beem, Edgar Allen. “HOME at Westport Arts Center, Painter Eric Aho Creates a Homecoming.” Yankee Magazine Online, (May 2009) McQuaid, Cate. “A See Change in 2008.” Boston Globe, Dec. 24, 2008 McQuaid, Cate. “The Elements beyond Our Control” (Alpha Gallery exhibition review). Boston Globe, May 21, 2008. ill. Campion, Peter. Quarry. Exh. cat. Reeves Contemporary: New York, 2007 McQuaid, Cate. “On the Surface and Beneath” (DNA Gallery exhibition review). Boston Globe, Aug. 30, 2007 Kirk, Anthony. Night Vison: Printing Darkness. Exh. cat.

Center for Contemporary Printmaking: Norwalk, CT 2007 Guyon, Anne Lawrence. “Fresh Paint Breathes Venerated Air.” Rutland Herald, Nov. 16, 2006 Kirk, Anthony. Copper Field Suite. Exh. cat. Center for Contemporary Printmaking: Norwalk, CT, 2006 The Becoming Line. Exh. cat. Brickwalk Fine Art: West Hartford, CT,2006 Kadour, Ric Kasini. “Eric Aho: New Paintings” (Reeves Contemporary exhibition review). Art New England 28, Issue 2 (Feb./March 2006): 29 McQuaid, Cate. “Provincetown’s Visual Landscape.” Boston Globe, Aug. 17, 2006 Slayton, Tom. “The Big Evocative Landscapes of Eric Aho.” Vermont Life (Summer 2005): 20–21, ill. Vendler, Helen. Eric Aho: New Paintings. Exh. cat. Reeves Contemporary: New York, 2005 Galloway, Anne. “Eric Aho.” Commentary. Vermont Public Radio. June 27, 2005 Sherman, Michael, Gene Sessions, and P. Jeffrey

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Potash. Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont. Vermont Historical Society: Barre, 2004: 621, ill. Vendler, Helen. The Overstory. Exh. cat. Reeves Contemporary: New York, 2003 Uimonen, Anu. “Myrsky nousee Keiteleen ylle.” Helsingin Sanomat, Oct. 16, 2003 Conley, Alston. Eire/Land, ed. Vera Kreilkamp. Exh. cat. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College: Chestnut Hill, MA, 2003: 226–28, ill. Sieker, Don. Exhibition review. “ Eric Aho, Watershed: Paintings of the Connecticut River Valley” (Saint-Gaudens exhibition review). Art New England 24, Issue 1 (Dec. 2002/Jan. 2003): ill. Garbowsky, Maryanne, M. Double Vision: Contemporary Artists Look at the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Putnam Hill Press: Chester, VT, 2002: ill. Arthur, John. Eric Aho New Paintings. Exh. cat. Munson Gallery: Santa Fe, 2002 Beem, Edgar Allen. “Six to Watch.” Yankee Magazine (September 2002): 64–71, ill. Haas, Robert, and Carl Belz. The American River, National Exhibition.

Great River Arts Institute: Walpole, NH, 2007: 7, ill. Shannon, Joe. “Eric Aho at Susan Conway Gallery” (exhibition review). Art in America 89, No. 9 (Sept. 2001) Tarbell, Bethany. “Studio Session: The Sky’s the Limit.” Art and Antiques 24, Issue 8 (Sept. 2001): 104–08, ill. Ruane, Medb. “Heavy on the Mayo. Artists at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation” The Sunday Times (Ireland) Magazine August 19, 2001): 16, ill. Waterman, Jill. “Tranquil Vistas Among Skyscrapers.” ArtsMEDIA (March 15–Apr. 15, 2000) Smith, Robert F. Recent Paintings at Spheris Gallery (exhibition review). ARTnews 89, Issue 2 (February 1999) Protzman, Ferdinand. “Eric Aho at Susan Conway Gallery” (exhibition review). The Washington Post, March 11, 1999 deNiord, Chard. The Qualities of Heaven and Earth. Exh. cat. Oulu City Art Museum: Oulu, Finland, 1998 Driscoll, John. The Artist and the American Landscape, ed. Arnold Skolnick.

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First Glance Books: Cobb, CA, 1998: ill. Fallon, Brian. “Small Works, Rubicon Gallery” (exhibition review). The Irish Times, December 15, 1995 Kelly, Susan. “Nocturnes: New Paintings by Eric Aho. Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont” (exhibition review). Art New England (Apr./May 1995) Kelly, Susan. “Night Visions.” Burlington (VT) Free Press, Feb. 1, 1995 Davenport, Charlet. “Regional Selections: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College” (exhibition review). Art New England (Dec./Jan. 1994– 95) Kastemaa, Heikki. A Conversation with Eric Aho. Exh. cat. Arktinen Galleria: Oulu, Finland, 1992 Fife Day, Meredith. “Paintings From the Hemlock Ravine” (Marlboro College exhibition review). Art New England (February 1991) Hernandez, Orlando. Aho en Infanta. Exh. cat. Ministry of Culture: Havana, Cuba, 1989

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